Is bacon red meat?

Red meats tend to have more myoglobin than white meat. So nutritionally speaking, beef, pork, venison, zebra, camel, kangaroo, deer, etc are red meats and most poultry items are white meat. Thus, bacon is red/dark meat in nutritional terms and white meat in common term. read more

Red meat does mean beef, however if you were reading a list of meats not recommended bacon could have been included on that list because it is not healthy (very tasty, but not healthy). Bacon is a lot of fat and is heavily salted. read more

All livestock (Pork, Beef, Veal, and Lamb) are considered as red meat. This name comes from the ammount of myoglobin (a protein which retains oxygen) in the cells of the meat. While pork does turn whiter as you cook it longer, it is always red/pink when it is raw. read more